From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption

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Adams, John E., 106–7. See also Holt International Children’s Services/Holt Adoption Program (HAP) “Adjustment of Foreign Children in Their Adoptive Homes,” 6. See also child welfare; DiVirgilio, Letitia “Adjustment of Korean-American Children in American Adoptive Homes,” 6. See also Valk, Margaret A. Adolfson, Nathan, 8, 9 “‘Adopted’ Korean Girl Loves Officer, Now Happy,” 60. See also Pacific Stars and Stripes “Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging,” 14. See also Kim, Eleana adoptee/adoptive child, 2–3, 5, 7, 9–10, 12–15; adjustment, 6–7; adolescent, 7; adult, 7–8, 10, 16, 133, 156, 159–60; art, 8–10, 12, 42, 47, 122, 138, 158–59; assimilation, 5, 10, 13, 18–19, 44, 87– 88, 96, 117, 122, 125, 131, 134–38, 142, 144–46, 151–52, 155; emergence of, 10–11, 16, 45, 86–87; identity, 6, 8–13, 127–28, 147; LGBTQ, 129; memoir, 9, 122, 133–34, 147; militarizing of, 40; nonnormativity, 125, 128, 130–31, 136; normalizing of, 125, 127, 133, 142, 146, 151, 155–56; subjectivity, 7, 9, 11–12, 16–19, 101–2, 128, 131 adoption: agencies, 11, 17, 101, 107, 117, 121, 144; alternative narrative, 9, 19, 131; domestic, 30, 71; dominant narrative , 3, 9, 13, 19, 94, 152, 155–56, 161; emergence of, 10–11, 16, 19, 22, 30– 31, 35, 42, 74, 78, 105; gendering of, 1, 17, 45, 74, 87; genealogies of, 2–4, 6, 10–11, 13, 15–17, 19, 21, 45, 131, 137, 155–56, 160–61; history, 2, 6, 8–12; imperialism of, 1, 17; industry of, 5; militarizing of, 1, 14, 40; normativity, 5, 18, 139, 141; origins of, 10–11; proxy, 88, 106, 108; queer formation of, 4–5, 18, 99, 128, 130, 133, 139, 148–53, 155, 158; racializing of, 1, 17, 45, 74, 87; sexualizing of, 1, 17, 45; studies, 6–9, 13–14; transnational, 7–9, 13–15, 23, 40, 46, 71, 73, 75, 86, 88, 94, 100, 103, 105, 108, 121, 128, 130, 134–35, 138, 141, 146, 158, 167n2; transracial, 8, 13. See also adoptee/adoptive child; orphan adoptive agent, 13, 115, 128, 131–32, 140 adoptive parent, 3, 7–8, 13, 18, 44, 93, 101, 106, 113, 128, 130–32, 134, 138, 148–50, 152–53 Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, 33 Afghanistan, 161; war, 158 Agamben, Giorgio, 78 201 INDEX Alameda Naval Base, California, 52 Alloula, Malek, 67 Alstein, Howard, 7 Althusser, Louis, 196n44 American–Korean Foundation (AKF), 34, 84–85 American Red Cross, 33, 85 American studies, transnational, 3 American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America, 53 “America’s Pacific Century,” 158 Anyang, South Korea, 103 archive/archival, 2, 9–12, 15 Armed Forces Assistance to Korea (AFAK), 17, 29, 31–32, 33, 35–36, 38– 39, 45, 47–48, 57, 62, 66, 71 Asbury, William, 32, 41–42, 103. See also Christian Children’s Fund; GIs and the Kids—A Love Story: American Armed Forces and the Children of Korea, 1950–1954 Asian: assimilation, 75, 96; exclusion, 17, 73–76, 88; gendering of, 89, 137; immigration laws, 74, 88, 91, 102; racializing of, 89, 94, 137; sexualizing of, 89, 94 Asian American: critique, 12–13; studies, 159 Australia, 139 Austria, 6 Barnett, Michael, 33 Baynton, Douglas, 115 Belgium, 42 Big Picture, The, 36 Birosel, Betty, 134 Birth of the Clinic, The, 111. See also Foucault, Michel birth parents, 3, 18, 130–32, 139–41, 146, 148, 150–51, 160–61; father, 157, 160–61; mother, 18, 130–32, 139–43, 146, 149–50, 152, 157, 160–61 Bisaccia, Andy, 55 Bishoff, Tonya, 8–9 Bob Hope Show, 36 Brauer, Fred and Margaret, 139, 142, 146, 148–49. See also The Language of Blood Brian, Kristi, 139 Briggs, Laura, 82 “Brownson’s Congressional Committee Investigation, Japan and Korea,” 95 (image) Bruining, Mi Ok Song, 122 Buk Han San, 124 Butler, Judith, 145–46 Caldwell, John C., 90, 104. See also “Children of Calamity” Canada, 139 capitalism, 17, 84, 89, 156 Case against the North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011, The, 157. See also Dobbs, Jennifer Kwon case consultants, 8, 132 Catholic Relief Services, 33 Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, 55 Cherney, Paul R., 106, 108. See also International Social Services—United States of America Branch Inc. (ISS-USA) “Children of Calamity,” 90, 93. See also Caldwell, John Children’s Aid Association, 6. See also DiVirgilio, Letitia child soldiers, 55 “Child Soldiers: Implications for U.S. Armed...